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Waban_star writes in with a link to MICRODEM, “a microcomputer mapping program written by Professor Peter Guth of the Oceanography Department, U.S. Naval Academy.” It’s available for free, apparently, from the site. Waban says, “This is a good program, if not always user friendly. This can be used to teach yourself about Geographic Information Systems, Tiger census data, aerial mapping, satellite photography, digital elevation models, etc.” Has anyone else used this program? What do you think?

Posted on Sunday, February 13, 2005 at 11:01 PM
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Microdem is an excellent product. It is an especially good product for geoscientists since it has a number of geologic functions. I would highly recommend that anyone get this program before considering buying a GIS. It tends to have all the kinds of functionality that a GIS program for sciences would have, but with limited file handling capability. Don’t expect to build any big maps, don’t expect to do network analyis, and don’t expect to do demographic studies. Just expect to learn a lot about how a good GIS can function.

John Anthony Blair | 02/15/2005 at 5:22 AM | #

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